embattle

Those raids have further threatened a health care system in the embattle territory that is struggling to cope with the fallout from the war.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we be not reliev'd within this hour, We must return to thecourt of guard: the night Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle By the second hour i' the morn.

From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

She feared he would vent plain speech that would cut Mr. Feuerstein's sensitive soul and embattle his dignity and pride against his love.

From The Fortune Hunter by David Graham Phillips

He pursued his way over the craigs; through the valley, and across the river, to the cliffs which embattle the garden of Ellerslie.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

Acme’s success is the latest humiliation for embattled Warner Bros.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Between March and April 1993 some 8,000 people are evacuated from the increasingly embattled enclave.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

President Donald Trump has apparently found a new adviser for his embattled White House ballroom: George Washington.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

But his ruling, incorporating his own frequent criticisms of LAHSA, left the future of the embattled agency in doubt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

But, over time, the middle ground that people like Sprat and Bentley had sought to occupy between superstition and rationalism became increasingly embattled, and the pendulum began to swing the other way.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He organized it piecemeal, on a class basis, instead of embattling it as a whole.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

Oh! she could have lingered there forever! and hardly did she know what it was to draw any but sighs of bliss till she saw the towers of Paris embattling the horizon.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blame-worthy?

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville

It has been supposed that the embattling of an army was first learned by observing the close order of the flight of these birds.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

Then in embattling his Legions, he places the Saints here, and the Angels there, as if one were the main Battle of Infantry, and the other the Wings of Cavalry.

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe